Landscape
Duncan Grant (Rothiemurchas 1885 - Aldermaston 1978)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1913
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
250 x 330 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 769765
Caption
Duncan Grant exhibited as a member of the Camden Town Group, and was also part of the Bloomsbury Set of writers, intellectuals and artists along with his lifetime companion Vanessa Bell and friend Roger Fry. They believed that life should be devoted to love, the creation and enjoyment of aesthetic experience, and the pursuit of knowledge. During the 1920s, the Bloomsbury Set became the most influential circle within the London Group. Based at Charleston, their farmhouse in East Sussex, Grant and Bell experimented with colours and semi-abstract forms inspired by the French Post-Impressionists such as Paul Cézanne. Here, Grant contrasts sweeping grassland with rocky outcrops constructed from flat, geometric patches of paint.
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Landscape by Duncan Grant (Rothiemurchas 1885 - Aldermaston 1978), 1913.
Provenance
Presented by Derek Hill (1916 - 2000) through The National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund), 1996
Credit line
Mottisfont Abbey,The Derek Hill Collection (presented to the National Trust through the National Art-Collections Fund in 1996)
Makers and roles
Duncan Grant (Rothiemurchas 1885 - Aldermaston 1978), artist